--- "title": "20 facts from Pew Research Center" "description": "These findings drew broad public interest." "date": "2013-10-03" "authors": - "name": "Bruce Drake" "job_title": "Former Senior Editor" "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/bruce-drake/" - "name": "Andrea Caumont" "job_title": "Associate Director, Digital Outreach" "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/andrea-caumont/" "url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2013/10/03/20-facts-from-pew-research-center/" --- # 20 facts from Pew Research Center Pew Research Center produces original data on a wide range of topics. We also share a lot of our findings on social media. Here, in no particular order, is a list of some of our most popular content on social media, informed by our analytics, from reports released in 2013. ### 1. Fathers spend more time on housework and child care, but still only do about half of what mothers do. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/03/14/modern-parenthood-roles-of-moms-and-dads-converge-as-they-balance-work-and-family/)) ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_2](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_2.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/03/14/modern-parenthood-roles-of-moms-and-dads-converge-as-they-balance-work-and-family/) ### 2. 65% of Americans say news organizations focus on unimportant stories rather than important ones (28%). ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/politics/2013/08/08/amid-criticism-support-for-medias-watchdog-role-stands-out/)) ### ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_1](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_1.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/politics/2013/08/08/amid-criticism-support-for-medias-watchdog-role-stands-out/) ### 3. More express concern over civil liberties (47%) than protection from terrorism (35%) for the first time in Pew Research Center polling. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/politics/2013/07/26/few-see-adequate-limits-on-nsa-surveillance-program/#liberties-terrorism)) ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_3b](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_3b.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/politics/2013/07/26/few-see-adequate-limits-on-nsa-surveillance-program/#liberties-terrorism) ### ### 4. 3% of Americans still connect to the internet at home via a dial-up connection. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2013/08/21/3-of-americans-use-dial-up-at-home/)) ### ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_4](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_4.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2013/08/21/3-of-americans-use-dial-up-at-home/) ### 5. During the first two years of the nation’s economic recovery, the mean net worth of households in the upper 7% of the wealth distribution rose by an estimated 28%, while the mean net worth of households in the lower 93% dropped by 4%. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/04/23/a-rise-in-wealth-for-the-wealthydeclines-for-the-lower-93/#overview)) ### ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_5](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_5.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/04/23/a-rise-in-wealth-for-the-wealthydeclines-for-the-lower-93/#overview) ### 6. For the first time in more than four decades of polling on the issue, a majority (52%) of Americans favor legalizing the use of marijuana. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/politics/2013/04/04/majority-now-supports-legalizing-marijuana/)) ### ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_6](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_6.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/politics/2013/04/04/majority-now-supports-legalizing-marijuana/) ### 7. A record 40% of households with children include mothers who are either the sole or primary breadwinners. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/05/29/breadwinner-moms/)) ### ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_7](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_7.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/05/29/breadwinner-moms/) ### **8.** 15% of American adults do not use the internet or email. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet/Reports/2013/Non-internet-users.aspx)) ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_8b](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_8b.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet/Reports/2013/Non-internet-users.aspx) ### ### **9. 56% of U.S. adults say they would not want** **to undergo medical treatments to slow the aging process and live to be 120 or more,** **but roughly two-thirds (68%) think that most *other* people would. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion/2013/08/06/living-to-120-and-beyond-americans-views-on-aging-medical-advances-and-radical-life-extension/))** ### ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_9](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_9.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion/2013/08/06/living-to-120-and-beyond-americans-views-on-aging-medical-advances-and-radical-life-extension/) ### **10.** A record 37.6 million persons ages 5 years and older speak Spanish at home. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2013/08/13/spanish-is-the-most-spoken-non-english-language-in-u-s-homes-even-among-non-hispanics/)) ### ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_10](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_10.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2013/08/13/spanish-is-the-most-spoken-non-english-language-in-u-s-homes-even-among-non-hispanics/) ### **11.** 56% of internet users have “Googled themselves” or used a search engine to look up their own name to see what information is available about them online. ([Fact Tank](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2013/09/27/majority-of-online-americans-google-themselves/)) ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_11](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_11.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2013/09/27/majority-of-online-americans-google-themselves/) ### ### **12.** In 23 of 39 nations surveyed, a majority or plurality of the people say China either already has replaced or eventually will replace the U.S. as the top superpower. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/global/2013/07/18/americas-global-image-remains-more-positive-than-chinas/)) ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_12](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_12.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/global/2013/07/18/americas-global-image-remains-more-positive-than-chinas/) ### ### **13.** One-in-ten (7.7 million) children were living with a grandparent in 2011. Approximately 3 million of these children were being cared for primarily by that grandparent. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/09/04/at-grandmothers-house-we-stay/)) ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_13a](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_13a.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/09/04/at-grandmothers-house-we-stay/) ### ### **14.** In 2012, 36% of the nation’s young adults ages 18 to 31 were living in their parents’ home. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/08/01/a-rising-share-of-young-adults-live-in-their-parents-home/)) ### ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_14](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_14.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/08/01/a-rising-share-of-young-adults-live-in-their-parents-home/) ### **15.** A record 8% of households with minor children are headed by a single father, up from just over 1% in 1960. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/07/02/the-rise-of-single-fathers/)) ### ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_15](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_15.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/07/02/the-rise-of-single-fathers/) ### **16.** 56% of LGBT adults say they have told their mother that they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender; 39% say they have told their father. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/06/13/a-survey-of-lgbt-americans/4/#chapter-3-the-coming-out-experience)) ### ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_16](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_16.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2013/06/13/a-survey-of-lgbt-americans/4/#chapter-3-the-coming-out-experience) ### **17.** An estimated 11.7 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the U.S. in March 2012. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/hispanic/2013/09/23/population-decline-of-unauthorized-immigrants-stalls-may-have-reversed/)) ### ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_17](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_17.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/hispanic/2013/09/23/population-decline-of-unauthorized-immigrants-stalls-may-have-reversed/) ### 18. 72% of Americans say that legal recognition of same-sex marriage is “inevitable” including 85% of those who favor same-sex marriage and 59% of those who oppose it. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/politics/2013/06/06/in-gay-marriage-debate-both-supporters-and-opponents-see-legal-recognition-as-inevitable/)) ### ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_18](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_18.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/politics/2013/06/06/in-gay-marriage-debate-both-supporters-and-opponents-see-legal-recognition-as-inevitable/) ### **19. 48% of Americans say the growing number of “people who are not religious” is bad for American society. ([Report](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion/2013/07/02/growth-of-the-nonreligious-many-say-trend-is-bad-for-american-society/))** ### [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_19](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_19.png)](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion/2013/07/02/growth-of-the-nonreligious-many-say-trend-is-bad-for-american-society/) ### ### **20.** 31% of U.S. adults say they have abandoned a news outlet because it no longer provided the news and information they had grown accustomed to. ([Report](http://stateofthemedia.org/2013/special-reports-landing-page/citing-reduced-quality-many-americans-abandon-news-outlets/)) [![FT\_13.10.01\_TwentyFacts\_20](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/FT_13.10.01_TwentyFacts_20.png)](http://stateofthemedia.org/2013/special-reports-landing-page/citing-reduced-quality-many-americans-abandon-news-outlets/)